Animacies - Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Informationen zum Autor Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways. Zusammenfassung Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality! race! and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate! immobile! deathly! or otherwise "wrong!" animates cultural life in important ways. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Animating Animacy 1 Part I * Words 1. Language and Mattering Humans 23 2. Queer Animation 57 Part II * Animals 3. Queer Animality 89 4. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127 Part III * Metals 5. Lead's Racial Matters 159 6. Following Mercurial Affect 189 Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 261 Index 283

Product details

• Authors: Mel Y Chen, Mel Y. Chen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2012
• EAN: 9780822352549
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5254-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries